Welcome to the first 2018 edition of the IPC-IG’s Inclusive Growth Bulletin.

We are glad to present a selection of studies regarding growth and inequality in Brazil and publications summarising the main debates from the recent International Seminar on Climate Change and National Accounting.

We also bring you the latest news and updates regarding the Centre’s activities.

This paper exploits three sources of data to arrive at the estimates of income shares across the entire distribution in Brazil: the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD), the large, nationally representative household survey organised by Brazil’s National Statistical Bureau (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística —IBGE).

Finally, the One Pager “Environment account challenges and the way forward” recaps a panel discussion between specialists regarding their perception of issues raised during the seminar, including the methods of production of information in Brazil and how this relates to making climate change assessments compatible with national accounts. This publication is available in English and in Portuguese.

Seminar on the SDGs and Challenges for Water and Sanitation Management in Brazil

On 1 February, the IPC-IG organised a seminar on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Challenges for Water and Sanitation Management in Brazil, in partnership with the National Water Agency (ANA), the UNDP and Ipea. The main purpose of the event was to gather contributions from leading water and sanitation experts regarding the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goal no. 6: “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”.

The seminar was attended by renowned Brazilian and international experts, public managers, researchers, and representatives from the private sector, non-governmental organisations and civil society, to discuss the inseparable relationship between water, the environment and sustainable development. This was the first in a series of three seminars to be organised by the IPC-IG and its partners in 2018.

News

Mission to Mozambique

The IPC-IG research team travelled Maputo and Tete, in Mozambique, from 12 to 16 February, as part of an inception mission for two research projects in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP). The first project aims to assess the coverage of food fortification initiatives in the country, while the second one will evaluate the impact of a set of WFP interventions to facilitate market access for members of 14 smallholder farmers’ organisations.

In the capital, Maputo, our Senior Research Coordinator Diana Sawyer and Research Associates Alexander Cambraia and Wesley Silva met with representatives from FAO, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the WFP and the EU, to gather general information regarding the implementation of the two projects. They also attended meetings with officials from the National Institute of Statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estatística - INE).

In Tete, IPC-IG consultants Sofie Olsson and Elsa Maguduanea, and research intern Vinicius Nogueira met with smallholder farmers’ organisations to better understand the local agricultural context. The vital information gathered in these visits will be used by the IPC-IG in designing a national food fortification coverage survey and an impact evaluation study for the market access intervention.

Mission to Rio de Janeiro

On 31 January, the IPC-IG research team presented the methodology used in the baseline study on the Targets of the Nike Project for 22 Olympic Villages in the city of Rio de Janeiro.Nike invited IPC-IG Researchers Mariana Hoffmann, Solange Ledi Gonçalves and Wesley J. Silva to discuss indicators with partners such as officers from the Rio de Janeiros's Municipal Subsecretariat for Sports and Leisure (SUBEL), managers of the Olympic Villages and Nike representatives.

The project seeks to promote sports and physical activities for children at the 22 Olympic Villages, located in low-income communities and managed by the Municipal Government of Rio de Janeiro. The role of the IPC-IG is to support the monitoring and evaluation of the project through data analysis and the development of indicators.

Mission to Egypt

Under the scope of an ongoing research project undertaken by the IPC-IG and UNICEF Egypt, our Senior Research Coordinator, Rafael Guerreiro Osorio, travelled to Cairo from 8 to 12 January to review and enhance the child sensitivity and focus of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems of the country’s Takafol and Karama cash transfer programmes.

During the mission, he met with officials from the local government and UNICEF to present a proposal for the development of a tool to be used in the M&E of these projects.